WD Principal Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

65% would recommend to a friend

(183 total reviews)
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Irving Tan

45% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Principal Software Development Engineer employees have rated WD with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 183 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Principal Software Development Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. WD is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Principal Software Development Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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183 reviews
4.0
Jan 5, 2026

Great place to work

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Pros

Dynamic career, transitioned roles a few times. Salary and benefits were fair in the long run. Great team leads, room for career growth.

Cons

Specific groups goals are constantly changing and its hard to not get caught in the churn of constant pilot projects to then in the long run purchase external solutions.

4.0
Sep 3, 2025

Review

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Pros

Company has good work life balance

Cons

Doesn't have accrued PTO. Unlimited PTO policy means it is upto manager to approve time off.

1.0
Sep 2, 2025

Lot of politics

Recommend
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Pros

Get to work with experienced people .

Cons

1. Poor infrastructure. The office is located at kadubeesanhalli . Coming to office is a struggle 2. The office building looks old , though maintained but can be done better 3 . Other storage companies offer better pay and perks . No RSU refresh . 4. Lot of toxic managers who want to build a team of loyalists . 5. Anyone joining new will have difficulty growing as they only trust people with WD experience. It doesn’t matter if you have performed or listen to your manager 6. Lot of discrimination against outsiders 7. Very poor hr . If management discriminates there is no escape , you have to leave the company 8. Some people stay in the company for a long time with no where else to go , they will from a group and drive out new joiners . They only want people who will do all the hardwork and handover credit to there scumbags . The higher management does nothing to control this behaviour 9. People play cheap tricks like removing cables of your hardware setup , give you a faulty system to ensure you fail 10. Do not join a team called Kazan networks . I will guarantee that you will have horrible experience. You will hardly learn anything and will take your career back by those many years

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